through every single one of my posts and down-voting me. Which is stupid childish and frankly I think that Brian should moderate how many down-votes that someone can give someone in any given day or something.

I understand if someone says something stupid and people down-vote that one comment but people shouldn't be able to just say "Well I didn't like his opinion on this one post so I'm going to screw him over for everything that he writes let's go through and down-vote every one of his posts". This kind of thing should be frowned upon and discouraged because I don't think that this is what Brian wanted in the system.

***EDIT*** And I'm probably going to get killed for writing this post but I feel that it's a serious question with the point system.

a box of chocolates. Well, not really. Actually, not at all. But, if you are dissappointed in your mgopoint totals, and it is negatively impacting your ego and behavior you should probably just go ahead and kill yourself. Hopefully, you haven't reproduced yet.

Here's to hoping the mailman brings us decoder rings and a free quart of MGoSchnapps.

On topic, I haven't seen enough abuse of the system to be concerned, but there are occasionally down votes that completely mystify me. I'm afraid these are vendetta votes, as the OP suggests. That's not cool.

Are you that guy who used to have the signature line:
"Lache Seastrunk, the future" ? I'm not trying to be a dick. I've negged you a few times and I feel kinda bad about it, you're probably pretty young. If that is you, then I'm pulling for you to come along.

I've actually been personally pretty pleased with the system. For the most part, I haven't seen many posts where people were getting killed (and by that I mean more than a -2 or -3) without good cause. One comment I made, I screwed up and posted bad facts and I took the hit for it. The system seems to be keeping most people honest. Then again that's just my epinion.

(EDIT: Just before I posted this bouje was at 105... in the time it took me to write it, he's now at 76. Ouch)

On your comment, you will even back out to zero. On your actual point total, you will come out +1 ahead. Positive votes count for 2 MGoPoints, but only show up as 1 point on the comment. I believe they are working to fix this.

Seriously though, on vBulletin each person has "reputation" which is like points and whenever someone gives you Positive Reputation or Negative they have an option of adding a message. The user receiving the rep has a "User CP" and they can see the last 5 rep received and by whom. It also links to the post. Highly recommended.

bouje: this is just a stupid thread to start. You had to have known you would get negged again and again and again. I'd just stop while you can.

Plus, why do you care so much? Its not like the MGoFaithful is negging your bank account. Its MGoPoints for christ sakes. This is like someone negging your rank on Halo 3. In the grand scheme of things it is not a big deal. We all cannot be Generals at level 50.

I think this is exactly why you posted this topic! You liked all the attention from the last whole you dug out of so you knew this post would send you way negative. Come on man just post informative content and stop your whining about points.

That's why I think that there should be more transparency in the voting process. You should be able to see who negs you and on what posts. I personally DIDN'T (since I've lost my privileges now) neg people unless it was pretty egregious.

And that's what I don't get why neg someone just for the fun of it? What's the point? I get the "gang-bang-neg" for this post that's fine but I don't get the point of just going through and negging someone for no reason at all.

Just because you haven't written anything new (and stupid) lately doesn't mean that there aren't people out there reading your old (and stupid) posts for the first time. There are people who hadn't caught up yet. That's how you came back from beyond the grave last time -- the late shift readers felt sorry for you and it balanced out. Now you've given everyone another chance to think "Jeez, bouje sure is an idiot!" and neg you. If you're lucky, the late shift will take pity. Chances are they'll just ignore you, but perhaps they will have lost patience and you'll lose even more points.

DON'T TALK ABOUT YOUR POINTS! It's not a popularity contest. It is, however, an UNPOPULARITY opportunity.

I personally have only downvoted the two places where he basically called me an asshole, but seriously what logic is there to giving this guy up votes? He shouldn't be starting threads because when he does they end up like this.

I'm still confused what is wrong with this thread or my right to be able to start them?

I acknowledge that this is Brian's blog and that it's not a democracy it's a dictatorship but to say "so and so should never be allowed to post because look at this post".

I'm sorry but I didn't really say anything "bad" in this post. I was just questioning how I woke up -100 points. If this is troll-like behavior to post a topic about the point system then I guess I'm a troll.

Last I checked the point system was a part of this blog as a way to filter out trolls and I hardly think that this post should be a "reason to not let me post" (and the other thing wasn't even something that I started).

It's not just for trolls it's also to encourage quality content. That's why there's the 20 point threshold. Just about everyone here thinks what you've posted isn't quality content it's whining. People don't want to read it.

This guy is too dumb to save himself. All he needs to do is shut the fuck up on this thread. Stop posting, and people won't have anything to neg anymore. Seriously. JUST STOP POSTING ON THIS THREAD, BOUJE. Let it die. Please. For the love of all that is holy, please stop.

If you reply to this, even through I up-voted all your posts on this thread to give you a break, I swear to god that I'll register 10 new names just for the purpose of negging you to oblivion.

He is now at -5 and he was complaining about a 97! My advice, stop posting on this thread and just stop complainiing about getting negged because it gets you gangneged. Take a day off or 2 and start making good posts that are either funny/informative and for Gods sake NEVER double post. I wish you good luck on your recovery and hope for the best.

I think Poguemahone's sodomy joke might have garnered him +300. I wonder who has the most negative-points per post? That would be more impressive than the overall total.

Edit: OK, not that anybody cares, but I just ran some numbers, and bouje is working at about -1.29 points per post, which isn't bad at all. The infamous Bluefront95, on the other hand, is (was?) at a blistering -66.11 points per post. A league of his own.

It's not hard to tell why people are negging the shit out of you - your attention whoring, ridiculous hyperbole ("Nothing worth doing is easy! I'll be a sacrificial lamb!"), and generalized whining is just terrible. Stop it already.

Its definetly going to happen. We should all hide and prepare for Death.

But how did it happen? My guess is that in order to achieve this point total, he found something bad about Brian and MGoBlackmailed him. It must be something like Brian involved with the worst cheer in the history of Earth...O-H-I-O. what else could cause such a point total?

And on a somewhat related note, I had a dream that romoteen14 ended up being Justin Feagin and my sister was falling madly in love with him and I was like, "IT'S A TRAP!" but she didn't listen and he turned into a Trueblood vampire.

Can someone explain to me how this point system works. I received an e-mail that said I needed to accumulate 20 points before I could start posting threads. How do you "neg" someone? Basically, what is this point system all about?